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This is no April Fools! Here is one of our favorite “company dinners” that a couple years ago we even made for Easter dinner. The prep of the leeks can be done in advance and the rest of it comes together very quickly at serving time. It is totally delicious. Put this plate together with … Read more
All three of our children are away at camp adventures and my husband and I had our first opportunity in over 17 years to get away alone together! My pottery teacher offered us her cottage on Block Island on days it hadn’t rented out and we snatched up this opportunity. Here are my photographs of … Read more
We love this dish so much we just planted a whole bunch of tomato plants to support it. Meanwhile, we already have fresh mint in our garden which is fun to use it in this. (But we also make it year round with grocery store ingredients as well!) It is a Martha Stewart recipe (see … Read more
This recipe is a spin off of mine from one I found on the inside of a Stouffer’s Corn Souffle box. I added the tilapia, as I am always looking for good ways to use this inexpensive, environmentally friendly protein source. I also exchanged their white rice for brown. These changes make it a completely … Read more
Having been in Maryland recently, I finally had what was reported as the area’s “best crab cake,” but I have discovered they have nothing on mine. I can’t really take credit for how good mine are since I use Martha Stewart’s recipe. (see here). The only thing I do different is I separate the batter … Read more
The above two books are the best (non-spiritual) non-fiction I have read since the Omnivore’s Dilemma a few years ago. Now that I have to return them to the library after hogging them for months, I thought I’d review them together since I wrote extensively on the topic of their content in former posts: (see … Read more
This entry is a follow up to yesterdays’ entry on overfishing which you can read here if you missed it. What can be done about it? It turns out there are solutions to overfishing. There is hope if courageous action is taken soon. (All quotes are from The End of The Line by Charles Clover.) … Read more
My non-fiction reading in recent months has been consumed with reading about overfishing. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 25 years, prompted in large part because I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and was moved to do my part for human sustainability. Over fifteen years ago I slowly started phasing in eating fish, needing more protein, and became a piscivore as well as a vegetarian. A couple years ago I was deeply influenced by Micheal Polon’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma to try to eat more organic and local food; I was inspired to reduce my carbon imprint related to food and attempt not to pollute either the earth or my body. It has since become obvious to me that I didn’t really know where my fish was coming from, and whether that was sustainable either. Hence my recent self-education, which has been eye-opening as well.
Here is a soup recipe that I customized from a Mollie Katzen recipe from the Moosewood Cookbook . It was perfect for this very cold day and was an instant hit.